On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
# However even AT&T's original RFS would still need some major overhaul in
# order to work well on a modern BSD, so I'm only lightly suggesting that
# the name "RFS" be reserved for it or something like it (i.e. a stateful
# remote file sharing protocol that preserved "Unix" filesystem semantics).
#
# For example the SunOS-4.1.4 implementation demonstrated this in that
# some operations were not supported fully, and some data types were not
# fully transportable (such as an inode number, restricted to "ushort" in
# SysVr3).
Keep in mind that RFS was never designed to be used in an OS-wise hetero-
geneous environment. AT&T intended it to be run in an AT&T SVRx environment
and damn the torpedoes.
# Some of these issues were dealt with in SysVr4 though, IIRC. [I used RFC
# with SunOS-4.1.4 to an ISC-2.2 (SysVr3.2/i386) box once and was
# successful in accessing tty devices for remote modem sharing....]
I think this was fortuitous happenstance. SVR4 was the first System V
to begin to catch up with the rest of the UNIX world (remember: most
sites that used networking were, for a LONG time, based on Berkeley-style
systems -- including the Berkeley FFS. SVR4 finally caught on to this
and used it.) There were hybrid extensions (UniSoft UniPlus+) which
were SVR[23] with NFS and NIS glued on, but...
--*greywolf;
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